Students Discover Update
Overview: Over the last five years we have worked to develop citizen science projects that reach out to the public but also that, more specifically, [...]
What to Do About the Ants in Your Kitchen
It all started in a street median in Manhattan, not far from Mary Tyler Moore’s apartment. Marko Pecaravic decided to do a thesis on the [...]
Students Discover: Ant Health Watch
**This is a guest post from postdoctoral researcher, Dr. DeAnna Beasley. Her research is NSF-funded by our Students Discover grant which partners scientists with educators to [...]
The Arthropods of San Francisco (and beyond)
What's that crawling under your bed... sitting in your light fixture... lurking in your cabinets? Perhaps it's a new insect species! The Arthropods of Our [...]
Dr. Eleanor Dishes about Ants!
Looking for a new podcast to listen to while waiting for the next season of Serial? Check out Under The Microscope -- available for free on iTunes -- [...]
ICYMI: Holiday Break Edition
Happy New Year! Classes are back in swing today here at NC State and we’re slowly but surely digging ourselves out from under the pile [...]
Meet the Cleanup Crew
Last week, you heard A LOT about the important role arthropods (particularly ants) play in removing food waste from the street medians and parks of [...]
Ants vs. Rats in NYC
Last year I got to take my first trip to New York City and spent most of my time in the medians of Broadway setting [...]
Glowing Ants
Just in time for Halloween, MJ Epps and I have created glowing ants. Like mad scientists, we locked ourselves in our office last week with [...]
BioBlitz at the New York Botanical Gardens
How many plant, mammal or invertebrate species live in the New York Botanical Garden? While it seems like there should be a straightforward answer – [...]
Behind the Science: Ants and Ecologists on Broadway
When contemplating all the picky eaters of the world, I bet ants probably aren't the first organisms that come to your mind. And yet ants [...]
Ant Picnic in Pennsylvania
**This is a guest post written by NC State undergraduate, Ryan Pileski. Ryan collaborated with Lea Shell to adapt the Ant Picnic lesson plan, an [...]
Humans vs. Ants
This past weekend was BugFest at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. The Your Wild Life team was on-location, chatting with [...]
NC State University Found to be the Most Bio-Diverse College Campus in North America
Several years ago, we started paying more attention in our lab to what was going on biologically near at hand. This transition would eventually lead [...]
Junior Scientists Take on Invasive Ants in New York City
Two junior researchers, Stephen Coyle (a rising college sophomore, top) and Kevin Catalan (a high school student, bottom), have been hard at work at Fordham University [...]